Furlough pay would negate shutdown savings

The move to grant furloughed workers back pay highlights another peculiarity of the shutdown: sending all those workers home does not save money.

Kevin Cullen

Last call for good old ways

The question is not why The Quencher, one of the greatest bars in the world, is closing. The question is how, in yuppified Southie, it lasted this long.

Jonathan Ramos attended a candlelight vigil last month marking the death of his cousin Jorge Fuentes.

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Slaying galvanizes Episcopal Church

The death of Jorge Fuentes devastated the Episcopal Diocese in Mass., and it made gun violence a personal issue.

Donnie Wahlberg standing in Copley Square in the new FiOS commercial.

Wahlberg FiOS commercial missing one thing: FiOS in Boston

The commercial features Donnie Wahlberg in front of the Hancock Tower, but you can’t get FiOS in Copley Square.

The Rays’ Jose Lobaton hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win Game 3 of the division series.

rays 5, red sox 4

Rays get walk-off win in Game 3

Koji Uehara allowed a game-winning home run in the ninth inning as the Red Sox missed a chance to sweep the division series.

Dan Shaughnessy

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This was the Red Sox’ first postseason walkoff loss since the Aaron Boone/Grady Little game of 2003. Gulp.

Richard Phillips said the sea captain’s life is his “normal.’’

A captain’s piracy saga comes to the screen

Captain Richard Phillips said his life is “normal,” even though his rescue from Somali pirates has been made into a movie starring Tom Hanks.

Opinion

Farah stockman

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The ultrasconservative Club for Growth has played a role in seeing that uncompromising Republicans are elected to Congress.

Globe exclusives

Westfield State University president Evan Dobelle.

Patrick supports Westfield State funding freeze

Using light as a connective thread, Birmingham, Ala., turned underutilized structures — such as this railroad underpass — into safe passageways between districts and communities.

Bold light schemes transform cityscapes
“I think a few people might look at me and almost not believe what I say,” writes Elizabeth Smart about not having psychological wounds from her kidnapping and months of abuse.

Book Review

‘My Story’ by Elizabeth Smart and Chris Stewart
“We didn’t expect it to all take off like this,’’ says Susan McKendry of Brookline (with husband Joe), at Boston Children’s Hospital with a Mo Willems illustration for their online and outdoor benefit auction this month on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.

Kids book illustrators donate their art to healing

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Why you can’t stop checking your phone
Pediatric brain cancer survivors (from left) Katie Nickerson, Bernard Manning, and Jack Coates.

Pediatric brain tumor survivors share bond
Eric Coldwell and his children, Thomas and Chloe, played with their 1-year-old pit bull mix in Weymouth.

Pit bull adoptions reflect new image
A programmer grabbed some sleep during Sunday’s 36-hour HackMIT competition at MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center in Cambridge.

Students joust for MIT hacking title
Braylon O’Neill, 4, tried dribbling a soccer ball with a new pair of prosthetic legs in Boston Sunday.

New strides for amputees

Deloitte IT projects plagued with troubles around the country
Bill O'Reilly is a popular, and partisan, host on television and radio.

Broken City

The role of partisan media
J. Christopher Love, professor at MIT’s Koch Institute, with a tabletop device for creating biologic drugs.

Could drug labs be brought to front lines?

Sports

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Pinch runner Quintin Berry steals second base in the eighth inning ahead of the throw to the Rays’ Ben Zobrist.

Jake Peavy ready to give it his all in Game 4

Monday’s 5-4 victory by the Rays forced a Game 4. Peavy will now face Jeremy Hellickson with the Red Sox up, 2-1, in the best-of-five series.

Boston mayoral race

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Martin J. Walsh and supporter Delia Baez of Jamaica Plain hugged after he released his plan outside English High.

Walsh plan would aid high schools

Mayoral candidate Martin J. Walsh made clear that he was not ceding the issue of education to his opponent, John R. Connolly.

Metro

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The state gambling commission heard presentations from Cordish Cos., Penn National Gaming, and Raynham Park. All of the plans had price tags of more than $200 million

Firms battle for slot license

Gambling companies opened the competition for the state’s sole slot parlor license with glitzy renderings and lots of big promises.

Columnists

Boston Capital

Hatsopoulos brothers powering tech company
QB Tom Brady walks off the field looking at his throwing hand after tossing a late INT to the Bengals’ Adam Jones.

Christopher L. Gasper

Tom Brady rues defeat, not end of his streak
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz issued a “respectful request” for customers to stop bringing guns into his company’s coffee shops.

JEFF JACOBY

A cup of civility

Dan Shaughnessy

Is it really necessary to go to Tampa?
Noted cookbook author Marcella Hazan took a break from cooking, as her husband Victor walked by and lovingly brushed against her.

JOANNA WEISS

A winning recipe

JAMES CARROLL

In N.Y., Capitol: The ecstasy of destruction
Scott Brown spoke at a dinner event in Nashua, N.H., in April.

JOAN VENNOCHI

Scott Brown’s 15 minutes of fame are up

Yvonne Abraham

Some joy and trepidation

Derrick Z. Jackson

The vanishing monarch butterfly

Christopher L. Gasper

Jonny Gomes really got them going

Bob Ryan

Belichick in process of loving his job

Shirley Leung

The Seaport’s Silver Line solution

Nation & World

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Antiabortion supporter Paige Cofield protested outside the Supreme Court Monday, the first day of the new term.

Justices decline hundreds of appeals

The Supreme Court began its new term Monday by turning away hundreds of appeals, including Virginia’s bid to revive its antisodomy law.

Business

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Curt Schilling with his wife, Shonda.

Curt Schilling selling housewares

The sale at Schilling’s Medfield home on Saturday will be short on sports memorabilia.

Arts

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“We didn’t expect it to all take off like this,’’ says Susan McKendry of Brookline (with husband Joe), at Boston Children’s Hospital with a Mo Willems illustration for their online and outdoor benefit auction this month on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.

Kids book illustrators donate their art to healing

Moved by a desire to help after the Marathon bombings, dozens of artists have contributed their work to benefit Boston Children’s Hospital.

Health and wellness

Daily Dose

Finding drug-free techniques to treat chronic pain

Nearly half of all Americans contend with chronic back pain, headaches, or joint discomfort, yet painkillers have recently come under increased scrutiny for their health risks.

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Becoming Bostonian
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“Texting and driving is unlike any public safety issue we’ve dealt with before....At the center of the problem, say experts, is a new kind of object — the modern smartphone — that’s changing our behavior on a massive scale.”

Leon Neyfakh on our cellphone habit